USADA: Lance Armstrong’s Team Ran Most Sophisticated Doping Program Cycling Has Ever Seen

USADA Chief Executive Officer Travis Tygart sent out a statement to reporters today in which he insisted that Lance Armstrong’s U.S. Postal Service cycling team ran “the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.”

“The USPS Team doping conspiracy was professionally designed to groom and pressure athletes to use dangerous drugs, to evade detection, to ensure its secrecy and ultimately gain an unfair competitive advantage through superior doping practices. A program organized by individuals who thought they were above the rules and who still play a major and active role in sport today,” Tygart wrote (via the LA Times).

“The evidence demonstrates that the ‘Code of Silence’ of performance enhancing drug use in the sport of cycling has been shattered, but there is more to do. From day one, we always hoped this investigation would bring to a close this troubling chapter in cycling’s history and we hope the sport will use this tragedy to prevent it from ever happening again.”